The above two portraits, one with thick eyebrows, regular facial features and good looks; One has narrow cheeks, big ears, rhinoplasty, thick beard and ugly appearance. These two portraits actually depict the same person, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. So, why does a person have two completely different faces? What does Zhu Yuanzhang look like? Which portrait is real and which is fake?

The emergence of Zhu Yuanzhang's mystery is an interesting topic in history. Some people say that ugly portraits are true, handsome portraits are beautified by painters, and similar stories are circulating among the people.

Some historians say that Zhu Yuanzhang is an ugly man with a long chin, big ears and pockmarked face, which can be said to be the ugliest of the ancient emperors in China. However, some people say that Zhu Yuanzhang's facial features are superior to others and his appearance is superior to others. He is a rare emperor. There are two completely different views. Now the portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang we see are mainly concentrated in these two categories, that is, ugly and handsome, but there are many versions.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty in China, political corruption made people miserable, and people everywhere rose up and rebelled against the brutal rule of the Yuan Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang joined the Red Scarf Army. Because of his courage and resourcefulness, he stood out in the fierce battle and soon became a marshal. In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor and established a dynasty.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was emperor, one thing broke his heart. It turns out that Zhu Yuanzhang is ugly. In today's words, he is a horse face with a pout.

Zhu Yuanzhang invited a painter to paint his portrait. An honest and frank painter, after studying Zhu Yuanzhang, carefully painted the portrait, picked up the brush and finished the portrait in a few minutes. The portrait is lifelike, even 36 pockmarked faces are not bad at all. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious after seeing the portrait and ordered the painter to be dragged out and hacked to death.

Later, several painters changed one after another, and all the paintings were realistic, but Zhu Yuanzhang was not satisfied. A painter was scared when he saw that several of his colleagues had been punished. When I am here, I will see myself?

Therefore, the painter bribed the people around Zhu Yuanzhang, knowing that Li Shimin, who admired Emperor Taizong most in Zhu Yuanzhang's life, and Zhao Kuangyin, who admired Song Taizu, painted according to the appearance of these two people, so as to ensure that nothing was wrong, and he might even get something in return.

The next day, the painter painted a portrait in the temple. He pretended to study Zhu Yuanzhang seriously, picked up a brush and finished the portrait in a few minutes. I saw this portrait with good features and elegant manners. It looks like Li Shimin of Emperor Taizong and Zhao Kuangyin of Song Taizu, not like Zhu Yuanzhang. However, Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy after seeing the portrait, constantly praising the painting well and rewarding the painter.

Accordingly, Zhu Yuanzhang's true appearance should be ugly. But some people don't. I don't agree. They think Zhu Yuanzhang is handsome and his ugly portrait is fake. However, why did Zhu Yuanzhang, a handsome man, deliberately vilify himself? This has to start with China's ancient physiognomy.

As the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang also wanted to create public opinion for his appearance. His advisers took great pains to shape the son of Zhu Yuanzhang.

The dragon's face is very long, so the counselors changed Zhu Yuanzhang's elongated chin from a big face to a long and narrow cheek, which became bigger and bigger. Dragon jaw.

Dragons have beards, and there has been a saying of campus since ancient times. Autumn is a legendary little dragon with horns. Autumn refers to the curved beard on both cheeks. The painter painted Yuan Zhang's cheek in Zhu Qiu.

The dragon has a pair of round eyes and deep eyes, so the counselors widened and raised Zhu Yuanzhang's forehead, making Zhu Yuanzhang's eyebrows erect and his eyes sunken, making him look dazzling. .

The dragon is covered with scales. Even if they are adults, Changlin can get away with it completely, leaving some traces. Therefore, the spots on the face, that is, dark spots like pockmarked spots, are described as dragons that are not degraded and unclean.

These characteristics are reflected in Zhu Yuanzhang's ugly portrait. Cheeks are long and narrow, eyebrows are raised, eyes are deep, ears are big and rhinoplasty, beard is thick, face has black spots and facial features are irregular. In other words, this ugly portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang is to be an emperor. People pieced together according to the appearance of the dragon, and finally such an extremely ugly portrait appeared.

At present, there are thirteen portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang, including eight portraits of dragons. These portraits are all of Zhu Yuanzhang's early portraits, which were prepared for the emperor to inherit the throne. Among them, the traces of artificial processing are particularly obvious. These two portraits are almost identical. The difference is that one face is covered with sunspots, while the other face is not so obvious. There are also two portraits, in which Zhu Yuanzhang is wearing a coronation suit, that is, the special clothes worn by the emperor when he goes to court, sitting on the dragon chair. In the present words, these two portraits were personally approved by Zhu Yuanzhang.

The bust of Zhu Yuanzhang in his later years is the last portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang in the picture is more kind-hearted, like a kind-hearted old man, which is in great contrast with his early portraits of the real dragon emperor. From the genetic point of view, we look at the portraits of five emperors in the late Ming Dynasty/kloc-0, and none of them are the same as the ugly portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang. On the contrary, it is very similar to Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait of the emperor. From this we can infer that maybe the real Zhu Yuanzhang is not as ugly as the legend.